John 11:45-50

Goodspeed(i) 45 So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him, 46 but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. 47 Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs? 48 If we let him go on, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and put an end to our holy place and our people." 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, 50 "You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."